The Last Song

By Albert J. Corey

The Last Song is a collection of poems and short stories dealing with a wide range of the things people go through everyday. The poetry inspires and challenges the reader to a closer walk with Jesus and points to the values and truths located in the Bible. Gods creation is all around us and this book will help you see it in a new light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467076593

Albert J. Corey

Albert Corey was born in Mahopac, New York, and graduated from Carmel High School in 1966. He later received a master’s degree in theology from Christian Life School of Theology in Columbus, Georgia. He has served in the navy for four years and for the last forty-plus years has been a designer for Pawling Engineered Products in Pawling, New York. His many interests include art, music, crafts, collecting, writing, and most of all, Jesus. His life has been an ongoing challenge to find out what God has in store for him every step of the way.

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Contents

Introduction

In The Beginning

Creators Song

Source of Life

I Seek

Why

For You Are God

Stars And Me

Life Begins

Christmas

Christmas

Put Christ Back in Christmas

Gabriel

One Night

Foundations

Foundations … a short story

Children

Inside Someone Cries

Children

Where Will the Children Go

I Want to Belong

Unborn Children

On Nights Such as These

Living Near the End

What Would Be Your Story

Could this be the day?

Last Road For Home

Running From The Fire

Too Far From the Garden

Mama

What If

Life Experiences (Choices)

And So It Goes

Blooms

Just Missed

Free Will

Swirls All Around Me

Snowflakes

Take the Blame

Go to the Valley

Living Your Life as Worship

Blessings Come Softly

Rainbows & Butterflies

Light

My Life Is A song

Honor and Glory

I Belong to You

God Lives in Me

His Rain

Rise Up

Take a Look

Wings of a Dove

Where do You Stand?

Heroes

Why Walk Alone

The Rock Stands Alone

Kings And Pawns

Stand Up

Circles in Ashes

Fragile

Rivers and Streams

River in the Wood … a short story

Decisions

Bridges and Chasms

Someday

More

No Reason

Stories

Whether

Road Song

The Bright Side

Riding the Rainbow

Now And Always

One Accord

The Last Song

The Last Song

All illustrations by Albert J. Corey

Special thanks to Michele Brainerd for help with Swirls All Around Me

This book is dedicated to my wife Maddy, my gift from God for being the

friend and support she has been to me all these years

Other books by Albert Corey

Songs To Poems To Songs

Introduction

Writing clears the mind

Records memories for all

Take the time to read

Where is treasure kept?

Where it will do the most good

Our heavenly home

God created us

For His design and purpose

Let’s live in His plan

Rainbows after storms

Gray giving way to the light

Life promised to all

I enjoy the process of writing … beginning with an idea or inspiration and following where it leads. I’m always concerned with the content and the way things are expressed. The responsibility for saying the right thing in the right way weighs on me throughout the process but never to the point of oppression. I’d always want what I say in a poem (or story for that matter) to encourage people’s minds and hearts toward the Lord, not away. I would never want anyone to miss out on eternity with Jesus because of anything I might write or say.

I never get up in the morning and ask God … what do you want me to write about today? I’m ready. Help me to get it right. No. Ideas come to me in everyday situations or places I’m in … in Gods’ good time. I never feel that if I’m not trying to write something everyday, I’m failing or I’m wasting precious time. I’ve tried it, it doesn’t work for me. I try not to force the issue. God knows what He wants to say, when He wants to say it. Writing that way does, however, build up a certain amount of patience which apparently God feels I need a lot more of.

Many of the ideas and inspirations come from my youth. I was raised in the country, far from anything to do with city life. Dirt roads, outdoor plumbing and a 1940s to 50s way of life was my childhood. The only traffic we had on the dirt road in front of our house was my uncles going to work in the morning (my mother’s side of the family had been in the area where I grew up for a couple of hundred years) and then those same uncles coming home again at night. Any other car during the day was a rarity. We, as kids, would spend most of our time playing in the woods (before ticks!) and made up our own games. We would be called to meals many times by the car horn from the old car in the yard my mother would honk to get our attention. The way things are now, there is NO way we’d let OUR kids EVER roam the woods alone without our knowing precisely where they were and for how long! It’s a different world out there now and it’s sad what has happened to our world in the name of progress.

As with the first book, I’m praying that the words in this book, arranged in whatever fashion they are, will touch your lives and cause you to think about certain things maybe a little differently than you did before. My biggest goal is to point you toward the Bible, Gods Word written down as wisdom, truth and life for us to follow and include in our everyday lives. The Bible is a shining light in this world of darkness we find ourselves in. God used words to speak everything into being and His words from that book saved my life and for that I am eternally grateful and I’m praying it’ll do the same for you!

Enjoy! Al

In The Beginning

In the beginning

Where darkness governed the space

Behold, God spoke light

Words can mean a lot

Backed by the power of God

Words meant to be heard

Our God is the source

All creation points to Him

In Him things began

Love and light are one

While hate and darkness are one

Gods love conquered hate

Sing praise to our God

Creator of all we know

All honor to Him

Creators Song

In the days when sound began

When mountains roamed the plains

The wind and rain played harmony

The oceans sang refrains

The Earth would tremble

The Earth would groan

At the mention of His Name

As the Song took shape

They sang to the Lord

The Creator

From whom all things came

Who really knows how long ago everything began, apart from God, that is. Many theories are floating around right now. So many books are being rewritten and movies being made. It’s hard to know sometimes, who to listen to. Are you into the Big Bang Theory or are the creationists right? Did we evolve from monkeys, who evolved from amoebas, who evolved from rock? Where did the rock evolve from? For that matter, where did the space the rocks float in come from? Are we bits of stardust that came to life? We’re even finding that there are invisible things out there we can’t even see yet that are existing right along with us, so maybe we came from there?

These things and more have puzzled mankind from the beginning of our existence and still do. And guess what, no one has all the answers! Most of us do not want to believe that this was all a mistake